Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families (eBook)

Martin Richards, Jacqueline Scott, Judith Treas (Herausgeber)

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2014
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-37411-5 (ISBN)

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Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.

• Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children's work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in welfare state protection for families
• Includes many European, North American and Asian examples written by a team of experts from across five continents
• Features coverage of previously neglected groups, including immigrant and transnational families as well as families of gays and lesbians
• Demonstrates how studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life across the globe
• Extensively reworked from the original Companion published over a decade ago: three-quarters of the material is completely new, and the remainder has been comprehensively updated

JUDITH TREAS is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Demographic and Social Analysis at the University of California, Irvine. Her previous book, edited with Sonja Drobni?, is Dividing the Domestic: Men, Women and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective (2010).

JACQUELINE SCOTT is Professor of Empirical Sociology in the Faculty of Human, Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College. Her recent edited books include Gendered Lives: Gender Inequalities in Production and Reproduction (with Shirley Dex and Anke Plagnol, 2012); Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints (with Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette, 2010); and Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges (with Shirley Dex and Heather Joshi, 2009).

MARTIN RICHARDS is Emeritus Professor of Family Research, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge. His recent books include Reproductive Donation: Practice, Policy and Bioethics (edited with Guido Pennings and John B. Appleby, 2012), and We Are Family? Relatedness in Assisted Reproduction: Families, Origins and Identities (edited with Tabitha Freeman, Fatemeh Ebtehaj, and Susanna Graham, 2014).

Autor

JUDITH TREAS is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Demographic and Social Analysis at the University of California, Irvine. Her previous book, edited with Sonja Drobnic, is Dividing the Domestic: Men, Women and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective (2010). JACQUELINE SCOTT is Professor of Empirical Sociology in the Faculty of Human, Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College. Her recent edited books include Gendered Lives: Gender Inequalities in Production and Reproduction (with Shirley Dex and Anke Plagnol, 2012); Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints (with Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette, 2010); and Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges (with Shirley Dex and Heather Joshi, 2009). MARTIN RICHARDS is Emeritus Professor of Family Research, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge. His recent books include Reproductive Donation: Practice, Policy and Bioethics (edited with Guido Pennings and John B. Appleby, 2012), and We Are Family? Relatedness in Assisted Reproduction: Families, Origins and Identities (edited with Tabitha Freeman, Fatemeh Ebtehaj, and Susanna Graham, 2014).

Inhalt

Notes of Contributors viii

Preface xvi

Part I Global Perspectives on Families

1 Family Systems of the World: Are They Converging? 3
Göran Therborn

2 Changing European Families 20
Trude Lappegård

3 American Families: Demographic Trends and Social Class 43
Wendy D. Manning and Susan L. Brown

4 Family Change in East Asia 61
Yen-Chun Cheryl Chen and Jui-Chung Allen Li

5 Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families 83
Irma Arriagada

Part II Diversity, Inequality, and Immigration

6 Same-Sex Families 109
Timothy J. Biblarz, Megan Carroll and Nathaniel Burke

7 Family Poverty 132
Rys Farthing

8 Transnational Families 155
Loretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla and Raelene Wilding

9 Ethnic Diversity in the United Kingdom: Family Forms and Conjugality 176
Alison Shaw

10 Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the United States 194
Karen D. Pyke

Part III Family Forms and Family Influences

11 Cohabitation: Recent Research and Implications 217
Rhiannon A. Kroeger and Pamela J. Smock

12 Partnerships, Family, and Personal Configurations 236
Eric D. Widmer

13 Health and Families 255
Deborah Carr, Kristen W. Springer and Kristi Williams

14 Religion and Families 277
Christopher G. Ellison and Xiaohe Xu

Part IV Family Processes

15 Divorce: Trends, Patterns, Causes, and Consequences 303
Juho Härkönen

16 Partner Violence in World Perspective 323
Emily M. Douglas, Denise A. Hines and Murray A. Straus

17 Money Management, Gender, and Households 344
Sean R. Lauer and Carrie Yodanis

18 Family Transmission of Social and Cultural Capital 361
Toby L. Parcel and Joshua A. Hendrix

Part V Life Course Perspectives

19 Adult Intergenerational Relationships 385
Matthijs Kalmijn

20 Children's Families: A Child-Centered Perspective 404
Jacqueline Scott

21 Fathers and Fatherhood 424
Kevin M. Roy

22 Aging Families and the Gendered Life Course 444
Phyllis Moen, Jack Lam and Melanie N.G. Jackson

Part VI Families in Context

23 Public Policy and Families 467
Pernilla Tunberger and Wendy Sigle-Rushton

24 Family Policy and Wives' Economic Independence 485
Hadas Mandel

25 Assisted Reproduction, Genetic and Genomic Technologies, and Family Life 508
Martin Richards

26 Sex, Family, and Social Change 52
Judith Treas and Thomas Alan Elliott

27 The Global Chaos of Love: Toward a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Love and Families 547
Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

Index 560

Rezensionen

"Appropriate for advanced family scholars while also accessible for students. . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." (Choice, 1 April 2015)



"The editors have assembled an impressive set of leading
and emerging family scholars to provide cutting edge and original
contributions on global family patterns, family diversity and
family processes, greatly enhancing our understanding of the
sociology of families in the twenty first century."

Kathleen Kiernan, University of York

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Contributors

Irma Arriagada is a Chilean Sociologist. She graduated from the University of Concepción and pursued her studies at the London School of Economics and I.D.E.A., University of Santiago, Chile. She worked at ECLAC-United Nations from 1974 to 2008, is an international consultant for the UN, and a researcher at the CEM-Chile (Women’s Studies Center) on gender and family topics. She has published more than 70 papers and edited 5 books. She coauthored Cadenas globales de cuidados: el papel de las migrantes peruanas en la provisión de cuidados en Chile, 2012, UN-Women (Global Care Chains: The Role of Peruvian Migrants in the Provision of Care in Chile).

Loretta Baldassar is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia and Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. Loretta has published extensively on transnational families, including Families Caring Across Borders (with Baldock & Wilding, Palgrave 2007), Intimacy and Italian Migration (edited with Gabaccia, Fordham Uni Press 2011), and many journal articles. Her most recent book is Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care (edited with Merla, Routledge, 2013).

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and since 2013, the Principal Investigator of the ERC project: “Methodological Cosmopolitanism—In the Laboratory of Climate Change.” Since 1997, he is British Journal of Sociology Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and since 2011 has served as a Professor at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris. Her publications include Risk Society (Sage, 1992), Individualization (with Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim; Sage, 2002), The Cosmopolitan Vision (Polity, 2006), and A God of One’s Own (Polity, 2010).

Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim is Professor of Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology/University Trondheim. Her research focuses on migration and ethnicity, medicine and health, and the sociology of love and family. Her publications include The Social Implications of Bioengineering (Humanities Press, 1995), The Normal Chaos of Love (with Ulrich Beck; Polity, 1995), Reinventing the Family: In Search of New Lifestyles (Polity, 2002), Wir und die Anderen (Suhrkamp, 2007), and Distant Love (with Ulrich Beck; Polity, 2013).

Timothy J. Biblarz is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. His research investigates the roots and consequences of social inequalities in the United States over time, with an emphasis on social mobility and family and intergenerational issues.

Susan L. Brown is Professor of Sociology and Codirector of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University. A family demographer, her research interests focus on how family structure is tied to individual well-being. In particular, she examines how new family forms, including cohabitation, are related to the health and well-being of children and adults. Much of her recent work addresses intimate partnership transitions in later life.

Nathaniel Burke is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Southern California. A New Directions in Feminist Research Fellow, he studies gender, masculinity, sexuality, labor, and inequality. His research investigates the division of childcare in families headed by gay fathers and the labor experiences of gay male sex workers.

Deborah Carr is Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research. She studies families in later life, with an emphasis on the psychological consequences of widowhood and divorce. Her recent work includes an NIA-funded project exploring the ways that family relationships affect older adults’ preparations for end-of-life medical care and decision-making.

Megan Carroll is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is interested in gender, sexuality, and the politics of family change. Her dissertation explores the triumphs and challenges of gay fathers’ collective identity formation, drawing from ethnographic research of gay parenting groups.

Yen-Chun Cheryl Chen is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. She is a Cambridge Gates Scholar, entering in 2010. She has been trained within political science, social work, and sociology. She had applied social identity theory to look at ethnic relations in the Russian Federation and has always been inspired by interdisciplinary work related to family lives, especially women’s life course development. Her current research focuses on familial ideology, intergenerational relationships, and the trend of marriage postponement in Taiwan.

Emily M. Douglas, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Bridgewater State University. Her areas of expertise include male victims of partner violence, fatal child maltreatment, corporal punishment, and divorced families. She has authored more than 30 articles and 3 books on social policies for divorced families, family policy, and corporal punishment. She is the founder and director of the National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy.

Thomas Alan Elliott is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include sexuality, culture, and social movements. He is currently working on his dissertation about national newspaper coverage of homosexuality since 1950 and the role the LGBT movement has played in changing that coverage.

Christopher G. Ellison is Professor of Sociology and Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Social Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has published widely on religious variations in family life, with particular attention to child-rearing attitudes and practices and marital and relationship functioning. His other major areas of interest include the implications of religiousness and spirituality for mental and physical health and mortality risk, as well as the role of religion within racial/ethnic minority populations in the United States.

Rys Farthing is currently a DPhil Candidate in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on child poverty and explores the impacts of growing up in low-income families from young people’s perspectives.

Juho Härkönen is University Lecturer of sociology at Stockholm University and Visiting Professor of sociology at the University of Turku. His research interests cover the life course, family sociology and demography, and social stratification. His recent works have been published in Demography, European Journal of Population, European Societies, European Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Politics, and Social Science and Medicine.

Joshua A. Hendrix is a doctoral student in Sociology at North Carolina State University. His research interests concern the ways that parental work schedules and household characteristics influence individual, family, and child outcomes, with special emphases on child psychological well-being and delinquency. A forthcoming publication examines how the timing of parental work schedules influences adolescent delinquent behaviors and will appear in the Journal of Family Issues.

Denise A. Hines, PhD, is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Psychology department at Clark University, where she is also director of the Massachusetts Family Impact Seminars and the Clark Anti-Violence Education Program. She has authored over 30 articles and 2 books on family violence. She has been the principal investigator on five federal grants, focusing on the etiology of partner violence, prevention of interpersonal violence, and the health of male partner violence victims.

Melanie N.G. Jackson is a doctoral student in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota, specializing in Couple and Family Therapy. Melanie’s research interest is in family gerontology. She is working on projects focusing on issues in families and aging, including dementia caregiving, family inheritance decisions, and health decision-making among older rural women.

Matthijs Kalmijn is Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences. He is known for his work on marriage, divorce, and intergenerational relationships and involved in the development of several large-scale survey projects such as the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS). He recently published on intergenerational support in the Journals of Gerontology (2013) and on marriage in Demography (2013). More information is available on www.matthijskalmijn.nl.

Majella Kilkey is Reader in Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research interrogates family policies and practices through the lens of migration. Recent publications include Gender, Migration and Domestic Work (with Perrons, Plomien, Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Ramirez, Palgrave, 2013) and articles in Global Networks and International Migration. With Lutz and...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.3.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Sociology
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Familienforschung • Familiensoziologie • Family sociology, sociology, family studies, gender studies, social psychology, immigrant families, welfare state reforms, partnering, parenting, families, family life, contemporary families, family inequality, family forms, intimate relationships, sociology of family, social change, globalization, dysfunctional families, nuclear families, extended families, gender inequality, intergenerational, cultural values, family values, fatherhood, motherhood, transnational families, assisted reproduction, family wel • Family Studies • Family Welfare • Social Policy & Welfare • Sociology • Sociology of the Family • Sozialpolitik u. Wohlfahrt • Soziologie • Wohlfahrt / Familien
• ISBN-10: 1-118-37411-8 / 1118374118
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-37411-5 / 9781118374115